Chairman & Chief Executive Officer - Mr Christopher Bryan Robert Stott
Mr. Christopher Stott is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ManSat LLC. Chris has been with ManSat since July, 2000.
Chris also serves on the Main Board of the Society of Satellite Professionals International, the International Institute of Space Commerce, and the International Space University where he is also Co-Chair of the School of Business and Management and on Faculty. Chris is also the Vice Chairman of the United Space School in Houston, Texas, and Chairman of the Manna Energy Foundation, a US 501c(3) working in the fields of clean water, clean energy, and clean telecoms for Developing Nations.
In September 2003 Chris Stott was appointed Honorary Representative of the Isle of Man to the Space Community by the Island's Chief Minister and Council of Ministers, a position he continues to hold to this day. In November 2010, Chris was the recipient of the Celton Manx Business Person of the Year award.
Chris left his position as Director of International Commercialization & Sales with Lockheed Martin Space Operations' $3.4 billion Consolidated Space Operations Contract (CSOC) in Houston to found ManSat Limited. (Read the April 2000 FORBES article here).
Chris came to Lockheed Martin from the Boeing Space & Communications Company in Huntington Beach, California, where he worked International Business Development for the Delta Launch Vehicle program.
Chris has also worked extensively in British and American politics as an Office Manager, Staff Aide, and Speech Writer in the British House of Commons and House of Lords, and as an Intern in the US Senate, and as a political aide on two US Presidential Campaigns.
Prior to his work in space, Chris was Special Projects Director with Life Education International, a children's health education and drug prevention program and United Nations Non Governmental Organization (N.G.O.).
Educated at Millfield School in Somerset, England, Chris attended the University of Kent, Canterbury where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree, with Honours, in American Studies Politics and Government. While at Canterbury, Chris also received a Diploma from the University of California, San Diego where he studied International Relations at the University of California and Marine Policy and at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
Chris also holds his Masters Degree in Space Studies from the International Space University, having graduated from the first class of ISU's MSS program in Strasbourg in July 1996.
Chris is a published Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the International Institute of Space Commerce and an invited member of the International Institute of Space Law.
Chris is the co-author of Britain and Europe's first work on space privatization and commercialization, "A Space For Enterprise; the aerospace industries after government monopoly", Stott & Watson, Adam Smith Institute, London, 1994. ISBN #873712 48 0.
Chris was a founder member of the British Space Education Council and remains active in supporting space education initiatives.
